Meta will shut down its Teams competitor Workplace next year

Unless you work at Meta.

Unless you work at Meta.

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I didn't even know they had an offering to compete with teams.
- Workplace is basically just an internal/"private" Facebook for your company; you have groups, posts, chatting, voice/video calls, and that kind of stuff.
  
  So it basically gave nothing other than "use a UI similar to Facebook's, but on a platform that only your own employees can access".
development slowed considerably after people returned to offices that had been empty due to the covid pandemic and after a number of key employees left.

I wonder if those two things are related. Hmm.

Also, the return to office was a conscious and forced decision with lots of evidence against it, so boo hoo.
I wonder how much Meta's image played a role in adoption of their service. Not that the likes of Microsoft/Google are great either, but subjectively I'd still rather let them in then Facebook.

Overall this seems like a sizable blow for Meta imo, considering they are heavily investing in being the platform for VR/AR. Productivity might be one of the important use cases, if it ever gets mainstream traction.
My workplace (an aged care nonprofit) tried forcing this down our throats last year in an effort to "garner communication and community across our facilities"

Glad to see nothing came of that